Rachmaninoff Concerto N. 2 - II. Adagio sostenuto (1/2)

[lurgidbee]

I don't care about a piano key being slightly out of tune, I just really like the way he plays. One of my favorite pianist!

[Arfat]

I like your style.

[Kaggypants]

Oh...this is so beautiful. I will never hear anything as beautiful as this as long as I live.

[cabaro10]

Cough Cough Cough, it's a shame a wonderfully performed piece. Someone please kick these coughers anonymics out of the hall please!

[Asura8735]

My favourite of all time....

[GrundyMad]

What time signature is this in?

[katenzeto]

WONDERFULL RACHMANINOV.BRAVO.GEORGY

[Nkinzer82]

Wow I never knew that Eric Carmen stole the melody for "All by Myself" from Rachmaninoff.

[dedbusted]

6:00-8:00 is too sluggish. The tension needs to build. The 1st movement was wonderful...are the small problems distracting the players? Around 7:00 is mechanical..

[Kaggypants]

@dedbusted It's fine. The rubato is perfect and it DOES build beginning at 6:58. He adjusts the tempo and arcs into fortissimo quite nicely.

Clean your ears out and listen again.

[dedbusted]

@Kaggypants I'll try listening again when I'm in the mood. Sometimes another listen will prove a person wrong.

[Kaggypants]

@dedbusted Maybe so...but you might also have a valid point.

Can you recommend another recording to me so that I may compare? I am not a fan of Kissin's.

[dedbusted]

@Kaggypants I truly love Philippe Entremont's recordings with Ormandy and Bernstein; all four are available from Sony--I'd like your feedback on those recordings. He does No. 2 with Bernstein conducting the NY Philharmonic.

[dedbusted]

STOP COUGHING!

[EssentielInvisible]

i feel truly complete when i listen to this concerto...like...like the world can fall apart i would still feel this way...

[MsPianistic]

Truly divine.

[QcMori7]

im in love with sergei rachmaninoff

[tetiaaroa]

All by myself by Eric Carmen

ps The correct name is Rachmaninov ;)

[Kaggypants]

@tetiaaroa Actually, it's Рахманинов. ;)

[Kaggypants]

あーI sure did. That flute/oboe (I can't discern which is which!) is so beautiful yet very haunting.

[wongsexpress]

@Kaggypants

It's actually both a clarinet and flute together :)

[Kaggypants]

@wongsexpress Thank you very much for the clarification! What a beautiful combination.

[Sashomei]

kakvo imate predvid g sharp out of tune? ne akordirano piano? :)

[SaltyGuava]

I literally can't listen to that clarinet solo without hearing the lyrics to "all by myself"

[fredmir1]

y à t'il quelque chose de plus pur

[BalinSilay]

I love live performances. This is so beautiful! What great interpretation, so sensitive, just like what Rachmaninov would have asked for. Thank you for your great artistry, Tcherkin, bravo!

[malfunctionfilament]

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[maddlive88]

the beginning always makes me smile.

[darkbluemars]

i feel like i have butterflies in my stomach

[DarkSoujirox]

This piano piece

Makes me cry T_T

[theclash1979]

"Life on Mars" inspiration.

[TRPLD]

I have the Version with Lang Lang... its maybe the most amazing thing i've ever heard!

[jpstenino]

It is G# not Ab, sorry.

[tragabicholapues]

my favorite rachmaninoff piece, just GENIUS

[citruzzlove]

So enchanting!

[Araclli]

Me enknta =)

[NotHelpless]

Beautiful.

[xxh3llfir3xx]

beautiful, but there is something seriously wrong with middle A flat.. so out of tune and "dinky"

[bigbadbassboy92]

5:26 its soooo obvious that the note is slightly out of tune

[jpstenino]

E below Ab is also out. It must have driven the pianist crazy.

[297dani]

beautiful :_)

[czerjamartin]

Un gran pianista!!!!!!!!!!

[anayanibal]

He aquí la calle donde habita la serenidad. Gracias.

Aníbal

[sofiamex799]

esto es lo mas hermoso que he escuchado en mi vida!

[creadrianmc]

Happy birthday Sergei

[ClaudioGiovannini]

Una dolcezza infinita!

[TVirusXXX]

Pianist need a hard work to  do to performance as it does, this master pize.

[lixdexical]

celein dion should be beaten for stealing this

[maxruehl]

It was Eric Carmen, back in 1976, who originally appropriated this. He mistakenly assumed it was in the public domain. Celine Dion's version is only a cover.

[Sabin06]

this is such a beautiful peice of music i love this song

[jostvandyke2007]

its actually at 3.49..if your saying thats not a bum note...

I will eat my head..

[stacattos]

Aren't first violins making pizzicato at that time?

[bonolesso]

all by myseeeeelf!

don't wanna be... all by myseeeeeelf!

:-P

[jostvandyke2007]

WhOops, at 3.40 the 1st violins all played a bum note in the melody..at the same time...

:cringe: Rach would not be amused..

[irishabel]

Uhhh...no they didn't. you don't listen very well.

[jostvandyke2007]

What are you deaf????

[Chasichan]

The flute of this piece was used in the first OVA of rurouni kenshin/samurai x. ^^

[spacebender]

I get chills every time I hear this Concerto, and this interpretation is absolutely beautiful!

[ahonda55]

The question now is, was Rachmaninoff a real human??

Personally, I think he was from the planet of music, not this planet.

BTW, while the whole concerto is great, it is so great at 05:08

[IlgarT]

no words can describe whow overwhelmed I am. THANK YOU for posting this present for all of us.

[itsyourcall]

thanks for telling me tcherkin :) too bad they didnt tune it better then, but i guess its hard before a concert.. sometimes. :p

[itsyourcall]

is it at 3 48 he hits a wrong note+?=

[tcherkin]

Actually the G-sharp on the right hand was little bit out of tune - that's why it sounds like a wrong note ;)

[sushidudeiscool]

@tcherkin It sounds like some of the violins hit a wrong note at the moment too

[GordonChil]

@tcherkin actually it wasn't an out of tune G#. It's a F#4 and F#5 that were played. But he also grazes the F4. As proof that it wasn't out of tune, listen to the F#4 and F#5 at the tail end of 3:50. You don't hear the same mistake/wrong note that was in 3:48.

[sodaorat]

@tcherkin I don't think it was out of tune: it's because the piano plays a G-sharp and the orchestra plays a A. The transition was maybe a bit sharp for the ears, but I didn't notice it lol

[mmkde]

@itsyourcall freak... i didn't hear a thing. :P ;-)

[joechou88]

@itsyourcalWOW,你聽得出錯誤的地方啊！好厲害。

但我覺得水準很不錯，很好聽。l

[itsyourcall]

oh if I played this, and correct, Im sure I would cry.

[nedryarson]

my oh my, that is gorgeous

[LexieCasteel]

When I write my stories, I play classical (some rock too) but for some reason if I am writing a part with the main character's childhood or a pinnacle part, I find myself using this song to have inspiration.

[ocjulian]

This movement has same expression as Weissenberg/Karajan version, very good...

[stan88keys]

the best part of this movement is the very end; too bad it's missing

[skylineaddict]

Did anyone else get chills down their spine?

[lilbecks76]

so beautiful

[CICGROUP]

Love this Concerto since high school.Teary when I listened to this even back then. To think the theme was used for pop tune and also became a hit. " All By Myself "..I think it was.:)

Marie

[R1skArb]

As cynical a f*ck as i've become, this movement STILL brings me to tears. Congratulations Georgi on a truly heartfelt interpretation of Rach's greatest work.

[EASYTIGER10]

Yeah, what exactly happened at 3:48? And the person that said things had gone a bit out of tune was right. One of the strings on the G sharp (an octave above the first note the piano plays) has slipped by the sound of it. I guess there's not much you can do by this stage in the performance. The piano was having the s**t bashed out of it in the first movement though. These things happen.

[kinigit]

Sounds like someone hit the wrong partial in the horn part, or maybe they didn't play out on the dissonance... Hard to tell what instrument that was at that point.. very nice otherwise!

[CICGROUP]

I think it was the piano... :)

[CICGROUP]

Yes, I heard that. Ii thought it was just my ear. But it did go out of tune. THank GOd. I wasn't imagining or perhaps too critical, because I wasn't. I was enjoying the Concerto.

Marie :)

[aise2i]

3:48 is awful, but otherwise quite nice.

[Levithian]

This one is so beautiful, thanks for uploading it!

[ximenovaldes]

This movement is so beautiful thank you for sharing this masterpiece

[sagalat]

IMPOSSIBLE to play this TOO SLOW...Even Rach himself plays it TOO FAST. (Plus, he sounds bored with himself in all performances). Listen to Weissenberg: Correct Tempo! And it is Cherkin himself who is controlling the conductor and orchestra from speeding it up! Note how nice the tempo contrast is from 05:10

[Alegoo92]

This is entirely too slow. This piece is beautiful and supposed to be slow, but I feel like I'm listening to it played back by Sibelius.

[jpstenino]

Alegoo92. I love the wit of your' Sibelius comment. At the same time I disagree with your tempo observation. My take is that tempo is off...only when the musicians technique can not support it. And, I think it works in this performance.

[robbicu]

I played second bassoon on this a blew the low Ab. Boy was I embarrassed!

[adamsuigeneris]

Absolutely beautiful, but does anyone feel that some of the keys on the piano are slightly out of tune?

[mazltov]

at 1:20 i see that the song "All by myself" is a compleet plagiat of Rachmaninoff 2nd...

[Alegoo92]

Yeah, it is. But it's not like he hid that, it was obviously 'inspired' by Piano Concerto No. 2

[rorusso]

Yes, i see this long time ago... A lot of 'romantic songs' was inspired in classicals

[CGSFAXX]

I always thought so too - but don't think any harm was done - do you? Remember the old saying (how is it, exactly?):

"Copying, repeating, is the highest form of a compliment"?

[cats2hart]

Yes, it was Eric Carmen, and I read that he thought the music was in the public domain, but it actually wasn't...so he had to pay a fine of some sort for violating the copyright laws...

[everybodysgreen]

immitiation is the highest form of flattery but songwriters have every right to protect their work from copycats

[CGSFAXX]

everybodysgreen - sure, darling, it is their right - but, isn't it still wonderful that someone thought that a piece of music was so beautiful, that he wanted to do something about it and show it in the next century? After all, I think Rachmanioff in his grave would be happier about the compliment than the monetary gain - what do you think?

Happy musical cheers to you - cgsfaxx!

[peshkin]

The Secound movement of Rachmaninov n.2 is really fantastic!but this tempo is very slow...Do you Agree with me?

[danielags16]

One of the most beautiful piece of music ever written is the whole concerto...but especially THAT second movement!

[Kalibar77]

I bet kyle556 would like this.

[DREW20065]

Sados

[PleaseDontUpsetMe]

this is the best of all piano concertos

[mitzidupree84]

Rachmaninoff e edin ot liubimite mi kompozitori,tozi kocert-sushto.A izpulnenieto e raztapqshto!:)

[mitzidupree84]

Rachmaninoff e edin ot liubimite mi kompozitori,tozi koncert-sushto.A izpulnenieto e raztapqshto!:)

[mitzidupree84]

Rachmaninoff e edin ot liubimite mi kompozitori,tozi koncert-sushto.A izpulnenieto e raztapqshto!:)

[typicalmusiclover]

wow!, gold, thx for this post, one of my fav concertos ever written, the breathtaking rach 2nd.